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Pulmonary tuberculosis in Europe has been decreasing over the last decades. This study evaluates the current importance of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and its trend over the last 10 years. In a University Hospital in Spain, 20% of all bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis cases were extrapulmonary. The most frequent site was the urinary tract (73.5%). Ziehl-Neelsen staining was positive in 50.6% of the cases. Lowenstein-Jensen cultures became positive, on average, after 4.6 ± 1.4 weeks. The proportion of extrapulmonary tuberculosis among the total number of tuberculosis cases has steadily increased trend over the period of observation.
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García-Rodriguez, J.A., Garcia Sanchez, J.E., Gomez Garcia, A.C. et al. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a University Hospital in Spain. Eur J Epidemiol 5, 154–157 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00156821
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